Life in pictures: Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar who influenced The Beatles

Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences has died. He was 92. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also confirmed Shankar's death and called him a "national treasure."Picture: AP/Reuters